Other graffiti referencing The Pies started to crop up all over the North WestAnd Liverpool-based band The Pies have finally got round to releasing their debut album, and explaining why they decided to start spraying their logo in the first place.

Formed 30 years ago, the original band split in 1993, before the group re-formed in 2000.

But the graffiti comes from the groups early days, when band members became stuck on a bridge over the M57 and daubed their group's name out of boredom.

The Pies are actually a Liverpool-based rock band who sprayed their group's name on a motorway bridge out of boredom

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Ashley Martin told the BBC: "The M57 is the famous one, 'The Pies The Pies' was basically because we got stuck on the bridge and we didn't know what to do, so we wrote The Pies again.

"It stayed up over twenty years, and Alexei Sayle used to say the council would paint around it."

After becoming something of a sensation, other jokey Pies slogans began to emerge elsewhere, including "Vote Pies" and "Pies this is your time" on the M6.

Now, fans will be able to enjoy the groups' latest work of art - their album A Brief History of Pies.